by stuart | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the first of a new pair of Ruskin Research Blogs, Stuart Eagles begins to explore how Ruskin helped to inspire the Garden City Movement. He starts by looking at the movement’s founder, Ebenezer Howard. RUSKIN & THE GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT: I. EBENEZER HOWARD &...
by stuart | Dec 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Asked in May 1886 to make a donation towards the building of the Duke Street Chapel in Richmond, Surrey, John Ruskin—on the verge of another serious breakdown in his mental health—replied with entertaining but instructive vehemence. Let us read it as an alternative...
by stuart | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Few people can rival Robert Hewison in the variety of his achievements. As a historian of post-war Britain he has interpreted, analysed and explained the cultural life of a nation to which he has made his own extraordinary contribution. As a broadcaster on the BBC, as...
by stuart | Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
War has been raging in Europe for nearly a year. In 1871, when Ruskin began writing Fors Clavigera (1871-84), his monthly letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, and founded the Guild of St George, he was in part motivated by a powerful reaction against...
by stuart | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Though renowned and sometimes mocked for his pronounced moral earnestness, John Ruskin nonetheless loved the theatre, pantomime, the zoo and—as we consider a more festive Ruskin— THE CIRCUS (for grown-up children everywhere). “People mutht be amuthed, Thquire”,...
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